Tag: <span>Civil Rights Law</span>

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BlogAug 10, 2012

Employee or Applicant Protection Against Retaliation

“Retaliation” in the workplace constitutes of firing, demoting, or harassing workers or applicants because they have complained about employment discrimination based on...

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Abuse of State PowerJun 21, 2012

NYPD Reforms Interacting With the TGNC Community

The LGBT Pride Month is drawing to a close but New York City will continue its observance of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and...

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Abuse of State PowerJun 18, 2012

The State of New York’s LGBT Community

For the fourth consecutive year, President Barack Obama has declared June the “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month”: the 30-day period...

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Abuse of State PowerJun 17, 2012

The Gay-Straight Alliance

The lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender (LGBT) community has come to be identified with “queer” people and with the HIV-affected. Thus the...

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Abuse of State PowerMay 17, 2012

Hempstead Pays $545k to Settle ‘Hangman’s Noose’ Case

  New York Civil Rights Attorney Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., announces that a settlement has been reached between...

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Abuse of State PowerMay 16, 2012

Federal Judge Grants Class Action Status for NYPD Stop and Frisk Lawsuit

A federal judge on Wednesday granted class-action status to a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics, saying she was...

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Abuse of State PowerMay 6, 2012

Working Undercover Under Strain

Of the 120 or so undercover officers in the Organized Crime Control Bureau, which runs most of the department’s undercover operations, there...

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Abuse of State PowerApr 16, 2012

Three Black Detectives Accuse Unit of Treating Blacks Like ‘Animals’

Top supervisors of an elite NYPD anti-gun unit allegedly handled white suspects with kid gloves while treating blacks like “animals” deserving of...

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BlogApr 13, 2012

Former Black Warehouseman Says Working at D’Arrigo Bros. Was No ‘Bowl of Fruit’

New York Civil Rights Attorney Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., alleges in a federal lawsuit that D’Arrigo Bros. Co....

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